Preserving a spider crab

[Kirstie]

Display them all, I say! Clear the oceans, make sandwiches out of their insides and put the shells on mantelpieces.



Kirstie
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[hebails]

[quote=NotDeadYet;899050]I agree, spider crabs are much under-rated for eating.quote]
Is this right? Can you actually eat spider crabs? They seem like they are a little more (stupid) easy to catch than the big buggers with claws but I always believed they were bad eating. I've missed a trick here if you can eat them.
Paul

[Kirstie]

[quote=hebails;899217]

Originally Posted by NotDeadYet

I agree, spider crabs are much under-rated for eating.quote]
Is this right? Can you actually eat spider crabs? They seem like they are a little more (stupid) easy to catch than the big buggers with claws but I always believed they were bad eating. I've missed a trick here if you can eat them.
Paul

I had some spider-crab meat at a bbq once (it's sold in lots of places as 'snowcrab') and it was delicious - sweeter than ordinary crab-meat. I think you can only eat the leg meat, but I might be wrong.

[hebails]

In that case we should all get on board the Kirstie crusade and eat some spider crab

[Scuttler]

Originally Posted by hebails

Is this right? Can you actually eat spider crabs?

Spider crabs make great eating but you don't get as much meat out of them and it's a lot more work than a brown crab.

Originally Posted by liamm

If it was the summer you could leave the carcas out in the sun for a few days and that might dry it out.

If untreated and left out in the sun the shell starts to flake and become very brittle. After a few weeks they crumble when handled.

[Kirstie]

Originally Posted by hebails

In that case we should all get on board the Kirstie crusade and eat some spider crab

Yes, yes! Eat your fill!

[purple vonny]

If it weren't for spider crabs I'd have seen naff all on saturday. I think they are rather cute in their own sweet way.

[Scuttler]

[quote=Kirstie;899219]

Originally Posted by hebails

I think you can only eat the leg meat, but I might be wrong.

There isn't much in them apart from leg and claw meat so it's a waste of energy to try and get the carapace meat although it's edible.

[IanDennis]

I with Kirstie - spider craps remind me too much of the facehugger from the movie Alien .

Last year Swanage pier was full of the bloody things, I have dived with sharks and sea snakes but I HATE Spider crabs.

Never really got on with eating them- lobsters are much nicer

[machiavelli]

Originally Posted by Kirstie

Display them all, I say! Clear the oceans, make sandwiches out of their insides and put the shells on mantelpieces.
Kirstie
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Have you had some horrible experience with a spider crab...?

Spider crabs are cool. You can put them on other divers' heads and they will wrap themselves around a first stage and won't let go. Yes, I'm childish like that. I always thought there wasn't much meat in them though. Maybe a ploy to avoid being eaten by Kirstie.